The ruling party managed to advance with its two drafts: the Bases law approved in the Senate and the tax reform of Deputies. The vote will be held on Thursday at 12.
The Chamber of Deputies met this Tuesday in a commission plenary that defined the final text of the Law Bases and of tax package. After the approval achieved with modifications in the Senate, will seek to recompose the tax on Earnings and Personal Assets at the session next Thursday at 12 noon.
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“The position of our bloc is going to be to accept the modifications sent by the Senate,” he summarized. Gabriel Bornoroni, head of the La Libertad Avanza blocat the beginning of the plenary session. In the same sense, they will accompany We make a Federal Coalition, the PRO (who insisted on his rejection of the limitation on privatizations, with special mention of Aerolíneas Argentinas) and the Radical Civic Unionwhose block will not fully accompany the project and there will be legislators who support the opinion with seven dissidence between the fiscal package and the Bases law.
Gabriel Bornoroni Freedom Advances
Gabriel Bornoroni, head of La Libertad Avanza.
Photo: Ignacio Petunchi.
“This law is daughter of dark arrangements in the Senate of the Nation and the repression that took place just 15 days ago,” he replied. Germán Martínez, his counterpart from Unión por la Patria, and predicted judicial fate for an important part of the two reforms. From the Civic Coalition They announced that they will support a large part of the official project but that they will present their own opinion.
After obtaining a majority in the Bases law opinion, that replicates the content approved in the Senate, La Libertad Avanza managed to impose the tax reform office with 27 signatures (4 dissenting) from five different blocks. The text ignores the sanction of the Upper House and recovers the document agreed upon in April in Deputies, what includes Personal Property and Income Tax.
Bases Law in Deputies: the debate in the commission
One of the positions that unlocked the destiny of the law Bases is that of the block We make Federal Coalition. In his representation he spoke Nicolas Massotwho stated that “this law can be insisted upon with the Income tax and Personal Property taxbecause they were part of the file that was generally approved in the Senate.” In return, he ruled out support for privatizations.
“This Congress dedicated itself to giving the best possible sanction to the Government,” he summarized. Silviana Giudici (PRO), who reiterated his block’s support for the law but clarified that “We disagree with the fact that privatizations are not moving forward in Argentina”. In this framework, he promised to insist on the treatment of the sale of state companies in a next legislative instance. Subsequently, Silvia Lospennato He stressed that “we will have a Bases law” and pointed out against the opposition: “The Helicopter Club will have to turn off the blades“.
Karina Banfi (UCR) considered that he understood “perfectly that what the Argentines expect is for us to provide them with solutions. They are waiting let the law come out: even we are tired of this“. Likewise, he highlighted his support for the privatizations because “we have stupid and loss-making companies” although he stressed that within his bloc there are views in tension and that there is a sector reluctant to accompany the Government’s ruling.
Plenary Chamber of Deputies Law Bases
Plenary debate on the Bases law in Deputies.
Photo: Ignacio Petunchi.
To its turn, Christian Castillo (FIT) expressed: “I ratify our total rejection of this law in all its versions, our formal challenge to the entire treatment of this law, which is void because it has been supported by corrupt practices. Whoever gives a quorum has a dirty and stained conscience“.
